Figure 2. Balanced geologic-geophysical section through the upper crust of the Northwest
Caucasus along the line Bezeps-Inal Cove (constructed by N. I. Ovsyuchenko,
E. A. Rogozhin, and E. A. Ushanova using data from Shempelev et al. [[2001]).
1 - Mesozoic terrigenous sequences; 2 - Mesozoic carbonate sequences; 3-5 - faults:
3 - reverse fault and thrust, 4 - transtensional strike slip fault, 5 - other; 6 - transitional
(Upper Paleozoic) complex between cover and basement; 7-9 - pre-Mesozoic basement of
folded system: 7 - North Caucasus marginal massif, 8 - plastic, of the Dizsky type,
9 - Transcaucasian (Dzirulsky) type; 10 - location of active neotectonic faults (after
[Nesmeyanov, 1992]) and their tag number; 11 - age abbreviation;
12 - surface expression of the Main Caucasus thrust.
Numerals denote neotectonic faults: 1 - Psekabsky reverse fault, 2 - Leshchenkovsky
reverse fault, 3 - North Shizsky normal fault, 4 - Gersevan thrust, 5 - Tkhamakhinsky
reverse fault, 6 - Bezepchuksky normal fault, 7 - South Bezepchuksky low-angle normal
fault, 8 - South Kobylyansky reverse fault, 9 - Shaumyan reverse fault, 10 - Shabanovsky
normal fault, 11 - Burlachenkovsky normal fault, 12 - Pikhlerovsky normal fault,
13 - Severoperevalny normal fault, 14 - North Sinyavinsky normal fault, 15 - Sinyavinsky
normal fault, 16 - Transverse Belokamensky transtensional strike slip zone (a, western
branch; b, eastern branch), 17 - Belokamensky normal fault, 18 - Neberdzhaevsky normal
fault, 19 - Shkalovsky normal fault (a, northern branch; b, central branch; c, southern
branch), 20 - South Shkalovsky normal fault, 21 - Polkovnichy normal fault (a, northern;
b, central; c, southern), 22 - North Savitsky normal fault, 23 - South Savitsky normal fault
(a, northern branch; b, southern branch), 24 - West Savitsky normal fault, 25 - East
Bzhidsky normal fault, 26 - Kuznetsovsky reverse fault, 27 - Malobzhidsky reverse fault,
28 - Verkhnekhazarovsky normal fault, 29 - Beregovoi normal fault, 30 - Drovyanoi
transpressional strike slip fault, 31 - Bezymyanny reverse fault.